the government is being petitioned to give a royal pardon to the 2 thousand,4 hundred ish people (mainy women) executed as witches in england and scotland.
i presume that most right thinking folk these days accept that the only dark forces at work were jealousy ,self interrest and superstition,but no government,or the church has ever acknowledged the wrong done.
maybe it`s time
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ABSOBLUDDYLUTELY!!!!!!
Those poor folk were no different to our spiritual people and healers of today. For goodness sake you can even get an NVQ (I think) in Reiki healing today...Imagine that a while back you would have been drowned for it :shock:
I hope they get their pardon bless them :cry:
Those poor folk were no different to our spiritual people and healers of today. For goodness sake you can even get an NVQ (I think) in Reiki healing today...Imagine that a while back you would have been drowned for it :shock:
I hope they get their pardon bless them :cry:
Sex God
I like the idea of acknowledging the wrongs done to people by governments, military etc. But this was 400 years ago. Now, I agree that these women were the victims of people who used the 'situation' to increase their power and others who had various reasons for wanting rid of them and used witchcraft as a justification.
But there were hundreds of thousands of other people who were similarly victims of ignorance, power-building and good old-fashioned prejudice. Look at the Catholic/Protestant killings (let alone the Jewish pogroms).
While I don't mean to say that we should forget or accept these abuses of the past, I feel a more productive approach would be to ensure that people of 'alternative' beliefs (ie not the major religions) were given the same acceptance and freedom that the rest get.
By the way - to pardon someone means 'you did it, but we'll let you off'. If I were executed as a witch for knowing how to deal with a boil using herbs I wouldn't be impressed with being offered a pardon.
But there were hundreds of thousands of other people who were similarly victims of ignorance, power-building and good old-fashioned prejudice. Look at the Catholic/Protestant killings (let alone the Jewish pogroms).
While I don't mean to say that we should forget or accept these abuses of the past, I feel a more productive approach would be to ensure that people of 'alternative' beliefs (ie not the major religions) were given the same acceptance and freedom that the rest get.
By the way - to pardon someone means 'you did it, but we'll let you off'. If I were executed as a witch for knowing how to deal with a boil using herbs I wouldn't be impressed with being offered a pardon.
I really dont see the point.
In one manner, it's good to think that judicial systems would have moved along and evolved in these so called civilised times.
Though to the victims of past ignorance and prejudice, really, what difference will it make?
None at all.
Conscience-easing on behalf of a nation?
Well... I do not think in the way my ancestors did, and I refuse to feel guilt for thier actions. They were stupid, and they were in dark and unenlightened times.
lp
In one manner, it's good to think that judicial systems would have moved along and evolved in these so called civilised times.
Though to the victims of past ignorance and prejudice, really, what difference will it make?
None at all.
Conscience-easing on behalf of a nation?
Well... I do not think in the way my ancestors did, and I refuse to feel guilt for thier actions. They were stupid, and they were in dark and unenlightened times.
lp
